A tincture is made of the dried insects, Coccinella
Indica (Coccus Cacti, L.) ; Cochineal.

General Action :- ►

The most
marked (verified) action of this substance is on the fauces and larynx,
great irritability, with profuse secretion of ropy mucus, and on the
urinary organs.

Allies :- ►

Iodine,
Kali bi., Kali iod., Canth.

Generalities :- ►

Sticking
alternately in finger-tips, temples and soles. ► Tearing or drawing
sticking, agg. warm bed, in evening and night at rest, sometimes from
slight exercise of certain muscles, for example, holding a book caused
them in upper arm. ► Sticking tearing here and there in muscles,
agg. right hip-joint, agg. rising or sudden motion. ► Drawings and
tearings here and there, agg. neck, between shoulders and in forearms.
► Drawing spasmodic pain in right calf, shoulder, foot, etc. ►
Fulness of whole body, with heaviness, as if stuffed. ► Swollen
sensation in whole body when half awake at night, sensation as if the body
were adherent to a woolen sack, everything he touched seemed thicker than
natural. ► Sudden sensation as if something were distending within
me, with sticking in rectum (?), after the distended feeling increased
warmth extended over the whole abdomen. ► Uneasiness, amel. open
air. ► General excitement in morning on waking, the pulses beating
so violently that it seemed as if he heard them ; mental and physical
E., then half-stupid condition. ► Indolence. ► Disinclination
to rise and after rising weariness. ► Weakness ; in morning
with sleepiness ; in afternoon ; in evening, with yawning ;
after a nap after dinner, with irritability ; after a moderate
walk ; with yawning. ► Aggravation in afternoon. ►
Amelioration of head and chest symptoms in forenoon after lying
down ; A. of headache, symptoms of chest and cough after a drive.

Stitches through brain.
► Aching ; in morning on waking, frequently returning ; in
forenoon, agg. violent motion of it ; in evening ; from his
accustomed beer ; agg. stepping hard ; in brain, agg. at bridge
of nose ; with such weakness that she must sit down frequently during
a hurried walk ; in morning after waking, as from drinking too much,
amel. rising ; as from a disordered stomach ; consisting of
fulness, with heat and stupefaction. ► Painful fulness. ►
Swollen sensation. ► Confusion ; in morning, agg. in
vertex ; in evening and lasting into the night, with pain in vertex
and burning in skin of forehead ; after breakfast ; as after
drinking too much ; as before violent coryza, amel. in open
air ; dizzy C. ; dizzy C. in morning on waking. ►
Intoxicated obscuration ; in morning on waking. ► Rush of
blood ; in forenoon on entering warm room after a walk. ►
Vertigo ; after eating, as after intoxication.

Forehead :- ►

Tearing in bones.
► Burrowing. ► Pain ; at breakfast, which was eaten
without remarkable appetite ; above right eye in morning on
waking ; above arch of nose and in frontal sinuses ; in right
side, sometimes extending to occiput ; indefinite, after supper, agg.
shaking or turning head or moving hands. ► Confusion in morning on
rising, with heaviness and dullness ; C., with pain extending across
left eminence, involving a small part of left half of forehead, parietal
bone and temple, extending to zygomatic part of right jaw, leaving in all
those parts tearing of cutting.

Temples :- ►

Sticking ; in
left amel. during pressure. ► Pain ; in right ; in left
after rising, lasting all day, frequently extending to left eye ;
extending towards vertex, amel. washing with cold water ; throbbing
and pressive, often alternating with heat and redness of face. ►
Sensation as if too narrow.

►

Pressure in vertex in morning on waking,
with burning pain. ► Confusion of vertex. ► Sensitiveness of
vertex. ► Sticking near right coronal suture. ► Paroxysmal
burrowing in posterior part of right parietal bone in morning in bed.

Occiput :- ►

Stitches as from the
bite of a leech, waking and causing scratching. ► Boring in left
towards ear. ► Pressing pain extending to left cheek and side of
nose, with sensation as if scalp were swollen. ► Pressure in it at 6
P.M. in a warm room, with warmth in it. ►
Sensation as if a hot constricting band extended from one mastoid process
to the other, at last affecting the whole scalp, and it seemed as if the
bones were drawn closer and closer together. ► Indefinite drawing
and pressing, and in temples and right eye.

Scalp :- ►

Painful elevation on
vertex. ► Feeling as if drawn tightly over skull. ► Crawling
pain in morning on waking, obliging scratching. ► Creeping at roots
of hair and bristling of hair.

Eyes :- ►

Inclination to stare.
► Tearing from left into forehead in evening after lying down.
► Raging pain in right, extending along squamous bone, on its inner
side to the occiput, it seems as if a fluid were injected paroxysmally
into a small blood vessel. ► Pressure upon left, agg. inner canthus.
► Sensation of a foreign body between lids and balls. ►
Smarting as if a hair were between ball and lid ; morning on waking.
► Burning in evening. ► Consistent tears, agg. open air.
► Pressure in left ball. ► Agglutination of lids. ►
Jerking of left lower lid. ► Margins of lids feel swollen. ►
Burning in margins of lids. ► Pain in orbital regions ; in
superciliary ridges. ► Vision weak.

Ears :- ►

Sticking in left ; in
right ; then aching in right upper back teeth ; deep in front of
left, between antitragus and zygoma ; above and behind left,
increasing to burrowing congestion that seldom remitted, and when worst
extended to left side of neck and clavicular region, last left lower molar
and left side of occiput. ► Biting sticking in left
antitragus ; in right meatus and right temple. ► Drawing
tearing above and behind left then roaring in it. ► Drawing twinging
in left. ► Pain in region of right parotid then in submaxillary
glands and salivation ; suddenly in right Eustachian tube before
dinner, agg. turning head to right and on swallowing, suddenly amel. warm
soup. ► Tensive pain in mastoid process ; in bones above and
behind left ear, agg. mastoid process, with salivation. ► Drawing
pain in right ; at times becoming sticking, with roaring in left ; on
convex surface of left concha, agg. touch ; cramplike, in right.
► Drawings ; in right meatus in evening. ► Throbbing pain
in left ; in left mastoid process, at times increasing to a burrowing
outward, before midnight in bed, when most severe it extends into left
ear, left occipital region and nape, last left to left claviculo-pectoral,
region, and on touch pain in the parts as if suppurating. ►
Rhythmical throbbing in ear upon which he was lying.

►

Stoppage, with pressure in meatus ;
stopped feeling in left so that hearing is indistinct ; S. feeling in
external passages on snapping fingers in front of right ; internal S.
feeling in left, agg. lying upon ear, with sensation as if fluid wax were
pushing outward, tensive pain in left mastoid process, extending to left
clavicle and last lower molar. ► Tickling from external canal
through inner ear to mouth, with voluptuous itching ; in left meatus,
with itching, afterwards becoming a pressure in concha.

►

Ringing in left, with bruised sensation
about left external ear, agg. mastoid process, the pain extending down
left side of neck to clavicular and pectoral regions. ► Cracking in
left on empty swallowing ; in left on spitting and sensation as if
wax would flow from it. ► Roaring forest. ► Impaired
hearing ; as if ears were stopped with cotton.

Nose :- ►

Redness of nostrils,
with soreness in them. ► Crusts on outer margin of nostrils. ►
Yellowish pulverulent substance on margin of nostrils. ►
Dryness ; and of throat, amel. water ; of posterior nares, so
that he drew water through nostrils, then blew out hard masses of mucus.
► Stopped ; sensation, but watery discharge. ► Itching
internally, then violent sneezing. ► Sneezing ; in
evening ; with cough and expectoration ; violent ; violent
in morning, with burning in mucous membrane of nose and on margins of
wings. ► Coryza, with sticking in temples and rawness and soreness
of throat. ► Much mucus ; thin white.

Face :- ►

Crawling in
malar-bones ; in left, extending across back or nose to right
cheek ; extending across back of nose to left cheek in evening ;
in left side of face and nose, corresponding to plexus anserinus, with
drawing, resembling prosopalgia. ► Pain in left articulation of jaw
on chewing, with cracking in it on empty swallowing. ► Longish
bluish-red spot on upper lip. ► Dry lips. ► Skin of lower lip
feels contracted. ► Sensation in lower lip as if drawn from both
sides towards the middle, often alternating with pulsating beats of heart.

Mouth :- ►

Teeth :- ►

Tearing in a right
hollow molar interrupting the morning sleep. ► Burrowing in right
upper posterior molars in morning on waking. ► Pain in last left
lower in hollow roots of third left upper molar (which was broken a year
before), with sensitiveness to touch. ► Jerking pain in left lower
canine after smoking. ► Toothache in morning after waking, agg. left
upper incisors and canine, with sensation of a cold wind on teeth,
increasing next day, agg. inspiration of holding a pipe between teeth,
next day teeth very painful on biting them firmly together. ►
Drawing in left ; in right back ; in right lower incisors ; in
left back, in forenoon ; sudden ; sudden, in incisors and in
right meatus auditorius. ► Sensation as if a lateral incisor were
grasped by a cold finger and forcibly drawn upward. ► Sore pain in
left teeth and gum waking him when lying on left side, amel. changing the
position, with sensitiveness to touch. ► Sensitiveness of lower,
with sensation as if too long ; S. to cold things ; to cold
air ; to cold water ; to cold water in morning. ► Gums
bleed longer than usual after removing old roots, and the cavities ache
for some time. ► Biting sticking in gum of right anterior incisor,
with dryness of mouth and frequent itching in left external meatus
auditorius. ► Soreness in toothless places in lower jaw. ►
Heaviness in left upper jaw as if teeth were pressed out of their sockets.

Tongue :- ►

White coat. ►
Vesicles. ► Biting anteriorly as from pepper. ► Biting
sticking in left side of tip, with salivation. ► Dryness ; in
morning on waking, with a brown coat ; with roughness.

►

Redness of arches of palate ; of
velum palati and fauces, with pustules on right arch of palate. ►
Sticking and burning in palate and tongue. ► Scraping in arches of
palate. ► Pain in soft palate, agg. talking or swallowing. ►
Tension in arches of palate. ► Rawness. ►
Sensitiveness of mouth and fauces, so that rinsing mouth caused cough and
vomiting of thick masses of mucus. ► Irritability of arches of
palate, so that loud talking and brushing of the teeth caused cough and
vomiting. ► Tickling irritation in palate to vomit in
morning increasing to vomiting of mucus on rinsing mouth with cold water.
► Burning. ► Dryness ; of palate ; behind arches of
palate ; of M. and throat in morning on waking, amel. cold water,
with heat in them and stiffness of tongue. ► M. and fauces feel as
if covered with velvet. ► Constant desire
to spit, and metallic taste (Iod.).
► Salivation. ► Hot breath. ► Odor as from a disordered
stomach. ► Sourish odor.

Redness ; of
pharynx, with difficult swallowing ; of right tonsil, with swelling.
► Swelling of right tonsil. ► Tonsils pale and distended.
► Hawking of mucus ; in afternoon ; with tickling of
larynx, then paroxysms of cough. ► Scraping sticking and
constriction. ► Sensation as if a hair stuck in it, causing hawking
of various-colored mucus. ► Sensation as if a crumb stuck behind
larynx ; the sensation of crumbs frequently descends towards stomach
and then rises again. ► Scraping ;
from morning till noon, amel. after dinner ; with
expectoration of mucus ; causing paroxysms of cough, with
expectoration of mucus ; causing nausea. ► Rawness,
amel. at night in warmth of bed, with roughness and hoarseness ; with
scraping as after highly-seasoned food ; causing violent cough ;
causing frequent hawking of mucus. ► Roughness ; in morning.
► Constriction. ► Choking, with constriction beginning in
stomach and extending to throat. ► Sensation as if a thread were
hanging down, and constant hawking of mucus. ►
Sensation as if uvula were elongated, causing constant hawking.

►

Pressive sensation ; in pharynx,
agg. empty swallowing. ► Almost a burning pain from smoking. ►
Soreness ; without difficulty in swallowing. ► Feeling of
beginning inflammation. ► Burning ; on soft palate ; in
sophagus ; in fauces every morning ; on soft palate in morning
on waking ; when smoking, and on lips ; somewhat amel. cold
water ; like heartburn and on palate. ► Sensation as if a piece
of ice had slipped down. ► Peculiar coolness extending up sophagus
to mouth. ► Dryness ; of posterior wall of pharynx ; with
much mucus on uvula ; with painful tension on right side on
swallowing ; agg. palate, with scraping, disturbing sleep ;
waking him, amel. cold water ; of pharynx, causing cough ; as if
full of dust, agg. till evening, when it was accompanied by burning in
arch of palate.

►

Tickling ; on uvula extending over
velum palati, agg. cold water, when three was irritation to cough ;
agg. uvula, soft palate and posterior wall of pharynx, in morning,
preventing lying, causing violent paroxysms of dry cough, only after warm
drinks the mucus was expectorated in large loose masses then through the
forenoon hawking and expectorating of loose mucus ; in fauces as with
a feather ; T. irritation to vomit. ► Frequent swallowing, with
sensation as if a ball were sticking in the throat. ► Inability to
drink water. ► Swallowing difficult in evening, with swollen
sensation in larynx and difficult speech. ► Sensation on swallowing
liquids as if they were forced down by a spasm. ►
Aggravation of symptoms in warmth, especially in bed (Iod.,
Merc.).

Clinical :- ►

Coryza,
inflammation of fauces, with accumulation of thick viscid mucus, which
is expectorated with the greatest difficulty, even with retching and
vomiting (Kali bi.).

Stomach :- ►

Appetite at 6 P.M.,
an unusual time ; even after eating. ► Ravenous ; for
supper ; soon passing away. ► Great for dinner, which was eaten
without relish and with speedy satiety, the food though light caused
discomfort and pressure in stomach and eructations, stomach somewhat amel.
by uprisings of food. ► Variable. ► Little at noon. ►
Satiety soon after dinner ; S. from water, with aversion to drinking.
► Lost, with increased thirst ; at noon. ► Aversion to
food and drink. ► No relish for smoking.

►

► Thirst ;
in evening ; in evening, with longing for beer, after a glass of
which there were headache and weakness so that he could not sleep until
midnight ; after eating, then chilliness from much cold water ;
agg. morning ; agg. eating. ► Aversion to coffee and water.

Distention ; after rising, with
retching rising to throat ; flatulent, after eating ; with
pressure upward and choking as far as fauces ; and sensation as if
vomiting would relieve it. ► Sticking in afternoon on lying down,
obliging sitting in afternoon on lying down, obliging sitting up ; S.
in fundus, then in ccal region ; in pit at every inspiration, amel.
expiration ; and griping. ► Intermittent griping extending to ccal
region. ► Pinching. ► Gnawing after drinking. ► Cramp.
► Pain ; in epigastric region ; in pit and left
hypochondrium ; with sensation of a ball in it ; in attacks,
with beginning nausea. ► Pressure as from indigestion ; P. as
if overloaded, after alight dinner, extending to fauces, lasting till
sleep ; as after mineral water, with nausea, then heat of stomach,
repeated for hours, then sensation as from drinking too much water, which
lasted all the forenoon.

►

Heaviness ; as if a stone were in
it. ► Sensitiveness to pressure ; in pit ; to touch in
epigastric region. ► Burning. ► Heartburn in afternoon, with
tensive pain in throat. ► H. at night ; two hours after
eating ; when walking after smoking ; after wine, with pressure
in stomach ; with eructations of almost and ilium were bathed in warm
water. ► Sensation as if a cold air blew into it. ► Coldness
and discomfort. ► Discomfort, agg. breakfast, with inflated feeling
in abdomen. ► Emptiness. ► Weakness.

Abdomen :- ►

Distention ; in
morning ; after dinner ; as if he had eaten too much ;
flatulent. ► Flatulence ; after dinner ; after dinner with
discomfort in whole body. ► Gurgling. ► Rumbling ; after
eating ; preventing midday nap amel. when walking about the room by
short passages of flatus ; agg. lying on left side ; with pain
in loins. ► Noises and movements of flatus, amel. short passages of
flatus. ► Emission of flatus ; odorless. ► Sticking here
and there, extending more towards hypochondriac region (apparently to
bladder). ► Cutting. ► Pinching after dinner. ► Griping
in morning on waking then diarrha ; G. in morning, then liquid
stools repeated three times during the day ; on walking, amel.
stool ; after eating ; after dinner, then liquid stool ;
with pasty stool ; with ineffectual urging shivering ; P., as if
many spots were ulcerating. ► Sensitiveness to pressure. ►
Warmth.

Hypochondria :- ►

Rumbling
beneath right short ribs. ► Sticking in region of spleen ; in
left H., extending to left side of chest in forenoon, when walking ;
periodically in spleen, gradually changing to fulness and benumbed aching
in left hypochondrium. ► Pain in left as
from incarcerated flatus, extending to left side of back and lumbar
vertebræ. ► Burning drawing in region of spleen,
extending into left side of chest, with jerking stitches ; burning,
drawing in left, waking at night, amel. application of warm
hand. ► Burrowing, tensive, dragging and drawing pain, and in pubic
and inguinal regions. ► Dragging, and in pubic region, with
discharge from vagina. ► Fulness in region of bladder.

Audible
movement towards genitals, then sticking from bladder along urethra to
glans when sitting. ► Sticking in left groin ; in right flank
extending from border of false ribs to right side of back, agg. pressure,
amel. passage of flatus ; drawing S. extending from left flank along
left hip. ► Cutting with passage of much odorless flatus. ►
Griping above pelvic region as from incarcerated flatus, amel. emission.
► Sticking drawing and dragging pain in inguinal, hypochondriac and
pubic regions. ► Dragging downward, as during menstruation, with
frequent micturition. ► Sensitiveness of tuber ischii when sitting
long or on pressure.

Rectum :- ►

Sticking ; with
every stool ; agg. walking with exertion to stool ; jerking and
boring S. constantly jumping to neck of bladder and along ureters to
kidneys. ► Burning pain after stool. ► Urging to stool, then
hard fæces ; U. as if to diarrha, then pasty stool, with much
flatulence. ► Ineffectual urging ; frequently, then three
stools relieving the pain in lumbar and sacral regions.

Diarrha. ►
Soft and frequent ; and copious ; soft, mingled with hard lumps.
► Constipation, then after eating profuse pasty stool, with much
flatulence. ► Hard ; and scanty. ► Fæces enveloped in
mucus, with straining, with burning and protrusion of hæmorrhoids.
► Delayed, difficult and clayey. ► Like kneaded clay, with
straining, then spasmodic pain in rectum just at lower end of sacrum.
► Irregular. ► Copious, pasty ; C. after walking. ►
Omitted.

Urinary Organs :- ►

Bladder.
► Curing in region, with heat in face. ► Twisting pain in
neck. ► Constant alternation of cramp, heat and coldness in region.
► Pain in region ; waking him at night, with ineffectual urging
to urinate. ► Pressure on ; and constant urging, amel. after
micturition. ► Heaviness, agg. in forepart, towards urethra, with
constant urging to urinate and frequent discharge of normal color, acid in
forenoon. ► Tension and fulness without leading to micturition, the
tension remaining after micturition. ► Pain full drawing in region
of left ureter.

►

► Urging
to urinate ; in morning ; but necessity to wait long
before the urine passed, also waking twice at night. ► Frequent
urging ; suddenly ; with urine as clear as water. ►
Frequent ineffectual urging at night. ► Strangury in evening.
► Spurting micturition. ► Strong stream of pale urine. ►
Frequent micturition ; in afternoon ; agg. at midnight and 4 P.M. ;
of copious urine ; of saturated urine ; of pale, odorless
urine ; of urine as clear as water, but it seems heavy and as thick
as oil. ► Infrequent micturition. ► Waits long for the stream
of urine. ► Retention of urine until there is great urging, when
little is passed slowly and painfully, sometimes sticking jerking on
urinating extending into the sore pudenda.

Urethra :- ►

Sticking in forepart
of glans at 11 P.M. ; in orifice, with
tickling ; in region of navicular fossa, with pain ; in
forepart, agg. in glans, with jerking. ► Pain on urinating as from
obstruction. ► Burning pain on urinating, with sensation of a stone
in urethra. ► Burning during micturition ; B., amel.
micturition, with at times prickling at its orifice, the latter during the
day before much micturition. ► Tickling in forepart before
micturition as if dull needles were suddenly forced into it. ►
Itching in orifice ; in evening ; in evening, with biting.

Urine :- ►

Copious ; and as
clear as water, then in afternoon dark urine with sticking along urethra,
agg. near glans. ► Scanty ; at night, and red ; and dark,
very ammoniacal and concentrated. ► Dark, turbid, of putrid odor.
► At first straw-yellow, afterwards lemon-yellow, afterwards light
brown, then reddish-brown and finally red. ► Acrid, burning. ►
Thick and hot. ► Acid. ► Began to decompose in half an hour.
► Turbid. ► Contained mucus forming in part flakes, clouds and
threads, mixed largely with the sediment. ► Brick-red sand after
standing long ; brick-red sediment easily mixing with the fluid on
shaking the vessel.

Clinical :- ►

Urinary
calculi, with violent colic, hæmaturia, large deposit of uric acid and
of urates, pains lancinating, extending from kidneys into bladder.

Sexual Organs :- ►

Pustule in
middle of penis. ► Throbbing in glans, with tickling in urethra.
► Heat in glans and left testicle. ► Itching of glans ;
and of prepuce, with biting. ► Biting stitches in prepuce. ►
Erections towards morning greater than usual, and emission ; frequent
erections. ► Itching of scrotum in morning on rising. ►
Drawing sticking in right testicle, extending into inguinal region.
► Desire ; in morning, with erections ; in morning, with
lascivious actions, without erections ; at night, with diminished
desire.

►

Pudenda swollen, agg. towards the front,
and sensitiveness, with cramp, which contracts the orifice of the urethra
so that the urine flows slowly over the sore parts, often with burning,
with frequent painful thin discharge, which does not seem to be leucorrha,
next day the swelling was hard and hot. ► Shooting in pudenda like
electric shocks. ► Sudden burning in pudenda, with throbbing and
sensitiveness. ► Swollen sensation in pudenda. ► Discharge of
mucus from vagina preceded by drawing-dragging in inguinal and pubic
regions and region of bladder. ► Menses too early, profuse, black
and thick ; too early and too long, with towards the close tension,
then constriction in abdomen rising towards stomach, as if she would vomit
water (which sensation usually occurred at the beginning).

Clinical :- ►

Menorrhagia ; discharge of large dark, clots with dysuria. ►
Intermittent menstruation, flows only in evening or night when lying
down.

Respiratory Organs :- ►

►
Mucus. ► Catarrh of larynx and trachea. ► Sticking
in larynx ; with hoarseness. ► Scraping and irritation to
cough ; S. in larynx and trachea ; in
larynx causing paroxysms of cough and expectoration of balls of mucus.
► Rawness in trachea, obliging coughing. ► Pain in
larynx after speaking a short time, and rawness. ► Rough ness during
and after speaking. ► Sensation as if crumb
stuck behind larynx, obliging constant swallowing. ►
Choking. ► Tickling in larynx, waking at
11.30 P.M.,
causing cough, with expectoration of much tenacious mucus (Calc.
acet.) ; T., then hacking from a corrosive fluid. ►
Irritation in larynx to cough in evening and disturbing sleep at night. ►
Fatigue of vocal organs, even after speaking, without exertion, with
hoarseness and labored breathing (Phos.).
► Hoarseness ; in
morning ; in morning, with violent hawking of tenacious mucus ;
in morning, amel. rinsing mouth with tepid water or taking warm fluids,
with paroxysms of cough and hawking of mucus ; in afternoon ;
evening ; at first, after not speaking for some time. ► Voice
husky and deep on going into open air.

►

Cough ; waking at 1 A.M.,
then sleeplessness, partly from the cough, partly from a burning soreness
in lungs, partly from headache, then uneasy sleep from 6 to 7 A.M.,
the headache amel. waking ; after dinner from the ordinary
smoking ; in hot room, preventing speaking ; from irritation in
bronchi and larynx, which made the soft palate so painful that swallowing
was difficult ; agg. 10 to 11 A.M. ; agg.
evening with soreness and subsequent burning in chest ; amel. evening
and night. ► Violent, from brushing teeth,
then vomiting of slimy fluid. ► Paroxysmal ; in
forenoon frequent P. in warmth of bed, lasting from 2 to 2.30, living
aching in throat as if fatigued, with heat and sore burning ;
short ; frequent, as from tickling in larynx and pharynx. ►
Painful, fatiguing, on waking from irritation in larynx and trachea.

►

Dry cough ; in morning ; in
morning, causing vomiting of mucus ; waking at night ; from the
accustomed smoking ; at night from tickling in air-passages, in
morning looser, with easy expectoration ; with pain, agg. apices of
lungs ; D. and violent in morning after waking ; D., racking and
painful ; short and D. ; short and D. in forenoon from
irritation in trachea ; D., rarely loosening yellow mucus of
nauseating sweetish taste ; at times D., at times expectoration of
thick mucus. ► Barking, clear, dry, waking
at 6 A.M.,
afterwards with expectoration of mucus, the hawking of which provoked
vomiting (Kali bi.), with
sore throat and frontal headache, the cold water and drinking a few
swallows, the heat in throat returned after a cup of warm milk, the cough
returned on entering a hot rood.

►
Breathing difficult ; in afternoon, agg. towards evening
by periodical sticking in left upper chest ; when walking. ►
Dyspna, with oppression of lower part of chest. ► Short and
oppressed breathing after rising. ► Inspiration deep when walking,
amel. by yawning.

Clinical :- ►

Laryngitis with most violent cough, difficult expectoration of very
tenacious mucus. ► Suffocative catarrh of the bronchi, with tough
white mucus which strangles cough agg. first waking. ► Whooping
cough, with vomiting of ropy albuminous mucus, agg. morning, the attacks
ending with vomiting of this ropy mucus.

Chest :- ►

Sticking in upper
part ; in lower part ; in right, along sternum ; near left
nipple ; in region of bend of fifth and sixth ribs ; between
sixth and seventh ribs, left then right ; now left, lungs feel as if
affected by S. behind sternum ; in lower part of right lung in
morning after rising, agg. deep inspiration ; in left lower chest in
forenoon when walking in the street, and in the evening ; right lower
ling at 4 P.M. on deep inspiration ; in a spot
in middle of first left false rib in the street, amel. when quiet in the
room ; in walls on uncovering abdomen, agg. epigastric region ;
in greatest curvature of last left true ribs, also when sewing, agg.
walking and ascending steps but not by deep breathing, amel. rest ;
in a spot in left, agg. walking, not by breathing ; in left, agg.
rapid walking ; in region of left nipple, amel. paying attention to
it ; between left fifth and seventh ribs, amel. deep inspiration,
returning on expiration ; in a spot in ribs and præcordial region,
with pain in the spot as if suppurating ; in left extending forward
towards sternum, with pain on chest ; deeply piercing, near left
clavicle, then ulcerative pains, similar to commencing tuberculosis ;
biting on margin of left false ribs between stomach and flank
(deeply-seated).

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Pinching in middle. ► Pain ;
in lungs on sneezing. ► Bruised pain in region of left clavicle in
morning on waking ; in region of left clavicle on moving head or left
arm or lying on left shoulder, with sprained pain ; in region of left
clavicle, agg. lying upon left shoulder. ► Tensive pain in region of
clavicle ; left agg. day and moving left arm ; in left upper
chest. ► Pressure in evening, then ulcerative pain in præcordial
region ; P. beneath sternum, agg. towards stomach, with weakness and
bruised sensation ; in middle of sternum extending to scapulæ ;
painful, in middle of sternum in forenoon when walking, extending
backward, with a similar pain between scapulæ extending forward. ►
Suffocative sensation, as if too narrow, agg. drinking beer. ►
Oppression ; in forenoon when speaking ; on ascending a hill,
with soreness of apices of lungs, a feeling as if he had run too
violently ; amel. warm breakfast ; paroxysmal, with external
soreness.

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Soreness beneath sternum, with
pressure ; S. in apices of lungs when walking in warm weather, with
chilliness ; after the heat, with pressure and tension and with
throbbing, agg. in apices of lungs ; beneath clavicles, with much
affection of air-passages ; in apex of left lung, with at times
pulsation that constantly alternated with contraction of lower lip (like a
cramp in skin) ; in lungs, becoming at times sticking or boring and
sometimes seated in pleura and pericardium, at another time deep in lungs
and heart, with stronger beats of heart ; becoming burning,
frequently changing its seat, but affecting most the heart and apices of
lungs, with irritation to breathe deeply and to cough. ►
Sensitiveness about left nipple.

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Pulsations in lungs ; now in heart,
now in middle of chest, now in apices of lungs, consisting of several
beats in rapid succession, then after five to ten minutes appearing in
another place. ► Heat beneath sternum in lungs when walking ;
agg. præcordial region and right lower chest ; deep, agg.
præcordial region ; between fifth and seventh ribs, left then
right ; with sticking ; in lungs, with feeling as if the expired
air were warmer than usual. ► Increased vigor of organs.

Heart :- ►

Sticking through it in
morning, with throbbing, which seemed to be audible but was not
perceptible to hand. ► Burrowing on rising and when driving, amel.
leaving the carriage. ► Soreness from morning till noon. ►
Pressure in præcordial, region. ► Pain in præcordial region at
night with palpitation ; indefinite P. at heart interrupted by
beating of the pulse ; throbbing, towards evening with at times
pulsations on its upper surface. ► Sensation when walking as if an
artery were pulsating rapidly on its upper surface. ► Sensation as
if something were forced towards it. ►
Rapid, irregular beating after dinner, causing anxiety. ►
Tumultuous action when lying after dinner. ► Palpitation waking at
night ; sudden P. as from a fright, waking at midnight, and shaking
of whole body, recurring with constantly decreasing severity ;
causing anxiety.

Pulse :- ►

Rapid ; and
tremulous.

Neck :- ►

Sticking in nape ;
in left cervical muscles on turning head. ► Pain between second and
third vertebræ. ► Tension in left muscles in morning on waking,
amel. rising.

Back :- ►

Pain ; with
sensation as if several places were hard. ► Drawing. ►
Sticking in scapulæ ; between S. extending in rays ; in region
of left scapula, extending into left elbow, agg. moving arm, with sticking
in left side. ► Tearing from right scapula across outer surface or
right upper arm. ► Pressure between S., after a while extending to
small of back and becoming seated in region of kidneys.

Lumbar Region :- ►

Sticking
ending in ccal region ; from kidney along ureters to bladder ;
digging, in right, in region of kidney, in evening in bed, then sticking
making him jump. ► Dragging pain ; in sacral region, extending
downward and forward towards bladder. ► Twisting pain in left side
of spine, whether in kidneys or uterus (?). ► Pain ; in
sacrum ; in region of kidneys ; region of right kidney ; in
afternoon ; in evening and agg. night ; in kidneys in
evening ; when eating ; in kidneys, agg. right, agg. pressure or
motion of upper part of body, amel. towards evening, next day alternating
with drawing pain from kidneys to bladder, amel. frequent emission of
flatus. ► Bruised pain in left ; and in sacral and hip
regions ; in left sacro-iliac region in morning on waking. ►
Oppressive pain in region of kidneys. ► Drawing pain ; in right
kidney, extending along ureter to bladder, waking at 5 A.M. ;
spasmodic, in region of kidneys, streaming out from both sides, in
afternoon when sitting, to be compared to the cramplike pain after an
injury to the testicles, amel. emission of flatus. ► Drawing, with
dragging, and in joints and hips. ► Tension in muscles ; T.
► Extending towards rectum, with drawing. ► Soreness in region
of kidneys, gradually extending to bladder, agg. into sphincter, with
frequent urging to urinate and increased dark urine. ► Sensitiveness
of tuber ischii on long sitting and on pressure.

Extremities :- ►

Sticking now
beneath nail of left great toe, now in tips of fingers and beneath nails
of thumbs and or right index. ► Tearing ; here and there in
long bones ; in knees and elbow ; along anterior inner surface
of right thigh, then in outer side or right upper arm, then painful
drawing in metacarpal bone of right thumb and sticking in right inner
malleolus. ► Tensive pain, now in left shoulder, now in left fingers
and in right hip, amel. evening. ► Weakness ; in morning after
rising. ► Paralytic sensation in legs and left shoulder, waking at
night.

Upper Extremities :- ►

Shoulder.
► Tearing and in small of back, extending in evening to forearm.
► Pain at night, amel. lying on it and pressing firmly against the
bed. ► Drawing in right extending to forearm and index, with
tearing ; D. in left, gradually changing to heaviness and in evening
changing to painful paralysis, as from taking cold in a draught when
heated. ► Tension in right, with drawing and tearing. ►
Heaviness like a pressure on right, extending down back to region of
kidneys ; tensive H., and in lower part of nape.

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Sticking in middle of right upper arm at
night. ► Sticking tearing in fleshy part of left upper arm, in
anterior and inner surface ; drawing tearing in anterior surface of
muscles of right upper arm during rest. ► Drawing in right deltoid,
making motion in tip of left elbow ; in muscles of bend of right
elbow during rest ; as from a leech in bend of left elbow. ►
Scraping in elbows. ► Pain near left elbow. ► Burning drawing
in condyles and joint of left elbow, waking at night.

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Tearing in tendinous expansion of
forearms. ► Drawing pain in muscles of right forearm. ►
Paralytic pain in right wrist. ► Biting sticking on back or right
hand. ► Tearing in right little finger, agg. motion. ► Sudden
drawing in left thumb. ► Swelling of left thumb, with pain when
moved or pressed.

Lower Extremities :- ►

Bruised
pain, agg. calves. ► Weariness ; agg. calves. ► Tearing
sticking in anterior inner muscles of thigh ; in left sciatic nerve,
extending from gluteal muscle to outer and posterior side during
rest ; throbbing sticking in thighs in forenoon. ► Bruised pain
behind right trochanter, amel. walking. ► Aching in thighs as after
a long walk. ► Drawing pain on upper and outer side of left thigh
during rest. ► Drawing down thighs and calves, with weariness in
calves ; sudden D. anteriorly above right knee.

Knee :- ►

Sticking in right
patella ; in evening, as from an electric spark ; in margin of
left, as from an electric spark ; deeply piercing S. in hollow of
knee, extending along left tendo-achillis and in back of right foot ;
in knee, with tearing. ► Sudden sticking tensive pain in bend of
right in afternoon when walking, agg. stretching foot. ► Pain in
side of left patella ; in right patella, agg. on its inner margin,
agg. motion and pressure, so that in the evening walking was impossible,
in the night knees and toes were swollen and hot to touch, the pain was
pressive and prevented motion.

Leg :- ►

Sticking near right
ankle after eating ; throbbing S. in legs ; tearing along
muscles of right calf. ► Sticking tearing on inner side of right
tibia. ► Scraping in tibia. ► Pain ; in right ;
along large vessels and nerves ; in lower half of left tibia in
forenoon when sitting, extending upward and downward ; in
tendo-achillis on walking, agg. in street, obliged to turn the foot
outward and stop, agg. next day, agg. ascending steps, the tendon
sensitive to pressure, afterwards cracking in tendon on moving foot up and
down and inability to stretch foot completely. ► Burning pain in
right. ► Drawing pain in left tendo-achillis when stretching foot
while walking. ► Spasmodic drawing in right calf. ► Sore
sensation on right tibia. ► Weakness in evening and night.

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Sticking in left inner malleolus.
► Bruised pain in malleoli on bending foot, and on inner surface of
heel. ► Sticking in left sole near toes. ► Pain in forepart of
left foot on walking, it seemed as if the mobility of the joints were
impeded by swell in of articular surfaces. ► Pain in soles, mostly
burning, agg. forepart, even after a moderate walk, becoming after sitting
a hot sensation. ► Weariness of feet in evening after a short
walk ; of feet, agg. sitting quietly in the house, amel. going out.

Toes :- ►

Cramp of right ;
three last right on lying down at night. ► Sticking on lower surface
of left great and in its tip ; beneath nail of left great at 4 A.M.
► Tearing in left great. ► Pain in left great, agg. evening so
that he could not step upon that foot, then chilliness, which lasted after
going to bed ; in great, with swelling and redness, preventing
walking, almost like gouty inflammation ; in a corn on right little,
so that he limped. ► Sudden drawing in right great.

Skin :- ►

Redness of face and
hands, with distention and throbbing of vessels ; and spots here and
there, and itching pimples. ► Pimples on right side of
forehead ; on tip of nose and to right of sternum ; on
malleoli ; on back, with discharge on pressure. ► Boils on left
wing of nose.

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Biting sticking on right pectoral
muscles and right groin ; in various places, scalp, concha, right
side of neck and throat, on margin of rami of jaws, near nipples, in back,
pit of stomach, axillæ, inguinal regions, all amel. by leaving the warm
bed. ► Pricking on anterior surface of thigh when walking sensation
as if warmth were streaming through skin ; P. on internal surface of
thigh, as on taking sparks from an electrical machine, alternating with
heat in chest, with palpitation. ► Biting in various places before
sleep ; above malleoli, extending in afternoon to knee, then
returning to other places. ► Sticking biting on various parts ;
in region of right clavicle ; in spots on abdominal walls, with
sensation as if leeches were drawing at these spots, afterwards similar
sensation at right nipple and on prepuce. ► Itching biting now in
right, now left antitragus. ► Itching biting-drawing in inguinal and
pubic region, on prepuce and penis, back feet and toes ; on and
between toes. ► Itching ; left upper arm ; extensor
surface of limbs, abdomen and back ; lower limbs ; legs ;
fold beneath left great toe ; right leg, with burning ; legs and
left fingers, in afternoon.

Sleep :- ►

Inclination to yawn
and stretch, with tensive pain in small of back. ► Sleepiness ;
in morning after a good night's sleep ; in afternoon ;
evening ; after eating, then general prostration. ►
Sleeplessness ; from internal heat ; for an hour and a half
after midnight ; with restlessness ; sleep only after midnight,
restless and light, waking at slightest noise and palpitation as from
fright. ► Restless sleep on account of previous vexations ;
disturbed by pains ; interrupted by cough, throbbing headache and
throbbing of heart ; with sexual desire without complete erections.
► Disturbed by noises in abdomen, agg. lying on right side. ►
Groaning in sleep. ► Frequent waking ; with excitement as from
coffee. ► Early waking ; with inclination to yawn and stretch.

Dreams :- ►

Many ; of many
people and full of care. ► Of many men, large palaces, churches and
frolicking with girls. ► Vivid ; and fretful ; of
syphilitic formations. ► Unremembered. ► Affectionate, with
reminiscences of his youthful loves.

Fever :- ►

Chill ; all
day ; when lying at 10 A.M., then headache and
cough from rawness in air-passages ; in afternoon ; in
afternoon, with thirst ; in evening ; in evening, with dull
throbbing in heart and soreness in chest ; amel. open air. ►
Creeping over whole body. ► Shivering ; between 3 and 5 P.M. ;
9 P.M., with rapid pulse ; after dinner ;
on going to bed, agg. back, with thirst, then dry heat of head and redness
of face, with chilliness of rest of body, then the dry heat became general
and lasted till midnight, then sweat on upper part of body till 5 A.M.
before sleep, with heat in head, then general dry heat, amel. sweat ;
in attacks ; across scapula extending down arm, after dinner, amel.
moving in open air, with sensation as if the skin would be loosened from
the flesh. ► Coldness of occiput as if in a draught ; C. of
limbs ; of back ; creeping along spine ; frequently in skin
on right shoulder and across right side of back ; of feet in morning,
with sweat on upper part of body.

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Heat ; towards evening ; in
evening in bed ; in evening in bed, as if there were a tumult in the
whole body ; on entering room, with confusion of head, which
increased till evening to a moderate headache, amel. open air ; at
night, then sweat. ► Dry at 3 A.M. with
uneasiness. ► Hot and dry skin, the head amel. in morning by cold
water. ► Heat on vertex ; in left ear with ringing ; in
cheeks in morning on waking ; in cheeks at 5 P.M. ;
prickling, in cheeks in evening without redness ; in chest, abdomen
and thighs, with prickling in thighs on walking. ► Burning in
legs ; in right, with itching ; in soles.

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Sweat ; in morning on rapid
walking, with weakness ; at night on back, sacrum and coccyx ;
on right leg ; in morning on legs and feet.